Rossano Brazzi
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Bologna-born Rosanno Brazzi abandoned his law studies at San Marco University when his parents were killed by fascists. Becoming an actor, Brazzi rapidly rose to matinee-idol status after his film debut in 1939; but while making faces before the Mussolini-controlled cameras by day, he was tirelessly active in the Resistance by night. He made his first Hollywood film, Little Women, in 1949, but it was his multi-hued portrayal of the impotent Count Vincenzo Toriato-Faurini in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) that won him international stardom. He went on to play such suave Europeans as Renato di Rossi in Summertime (1955) and Emile DeBecque in South Pacific (1958), after which his film roles tended to become routine and repetitive. An occasional visitor to television after his first small-screen appearance on a 1960 episode of The June Allyson Show, Brazzi was a regular on the Harold Robbins-created series The Survivors (1969), playing Onassis clone Antaeus Riakos. Turning to directing in the mid-1960s (sometimes under the nom de film of Edward Ross), Brazzi's best-known effort in this capacity was the modest family-oriented film The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966). From 1940 to 1981, Rosanno Brazzi was the husband of actress Lidia Bartalini; after her death, he married another actress, Ilse Fischer. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviFilmography:
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Rossano Brazzi
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| Born | 18 September 1916 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 24 December 1994 (aged 78) Rome, Italy |
| Years active | 1939–94 |
| Spouse | Lidia Bertolini (1940-81; her death) Ilse Fischer (1982-94; his death) |
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor.
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Biography
Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria (née Ghedini) Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four. He made his film debut in 1939.
He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), South Pacific (1958), Count Your Blessings (1959),The Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969).
Marriages
In 1940, Brazzi married baroness Lidia Bertolini (1921–1981) to whom he was married until her death in 1981. The couple had no children. In 1982, he married Ilse Fischer, a German national, who had been the couple's housekeeper for many years. This marriage was also childless. However, he did father a son (born 24 July 1955) by a relationship with Llewella Humphreys, daughter of Murray Humphreys.
Death
Brazzi died in Rome on Christmas Eve 1994, aged 78, from a neural virus.
Selected filmography
- We the Living (1942)
- Little Women (1949)
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Summertime (1955)
- Loser Takes All (1956)
- Legend of the Lost (1957)
- The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
- South Pacific (1958)
- A Certain Smile (1958)
- Count Your Blessings (1959)
- Siege of Syracuse (1960)
- Three Fables of Love (1962)
- Mondo cane (1962)
- The Light in the Piazza (1962)
- Redhead (1962)
- Rome Adventure (1962)
- Dark Purpose (1964)
- Instant Love (1964)
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
- The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966)
- The Bobo (1967)
- Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
- The Far Pavilions (1984)
- Russicum - I giorni del diavolo (1989) aka The Third Solution
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(1942 Drama Film)
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(1958 Drama Film)
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